We Run Wild

And you’ll follow me and I’ll follow you.

monsters like me were born for war
and weapons like you were made to kill.
to feel is not in our programming
and love is a foreign concept to us.

but there was a ghost in the machine,
a fault, an error in our systems.
and to be flawed is to be human,
to be human is a death sentence.

so we run, waging our own war
we learn to love, learn to fight back,
we bare our teeth against their guns;
animals against machines.

no longer a ghost but a soul
was soon to be found in our hollow eyes.
circuitry became veins and arteries,
no taste of metal but only of your lips.

the way to be human is long and hard
and the war still hasn’t stopped for us.
but we’re no longer weapons but soldiers;
if i die, i’ll die fighting by your side.

i’ll die with a fire raging in my soul.
i’ll die with not fuel but blood on my lips.
i’ll die with my hands tightly around yours
because we finally learned to love.

but for now, we’ll run as far as we can.
run where smoke won’t corrupt our lungs,
run where the earth is warm to touch.
we’ll run where we can be human.

Reviews

[Addict With a Pen]

OH MY GOD! This is beautiful!! I love this so much, every line is a masterpiece and every paragraph is pure gold. Wow. This is the best piece of poetry I've read on this sight BY FAR!! The way you crafted and carved your words to make the tone sound calm and fiery at the same time really brings a new light to your writing. The concept of love in a dystopian world where being human is a flaw, is truly genius. Your format is perfect too, where as nothing is highlighted and the words flow calmly. It really forces the reader to take their time reading and capture every detail and the emotions behind them. Its like the backstory of a new novel that interferes with the true emotions of man and what power they posses in a world full of the emotionless.
Wonderful work!
I can't wait to read the rest of your stuff

[Chrys Marie]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I'm really glad you enjoyed this one! This was very sweet of you, you made my day with this review -- it contained some of the best feedback I've ever received. Thank you for giving your time to write out your thoughts on this one, and I hope to write more to entertain you!

[H.L. Cerveise]

This is a great poem with a terrific message. I so agree with you, "the way to be human is long and hard." It would be nice if we could, "...run where smoke won't corrupt our lungs." I do hope that place will exist here on earth; however, I fear if mankind does not drastically change all those places will be gone. I love the stanza breakdown, and the flow of words was very easy to read.

Well done.

[Chrys Marie]

Thank you for your feedback!

[Diamond]

Simply amazing.. I just loved the way., How you have put across that we are getting used to live in an inhuman world calling ourselves humans.